Top 1200 College Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

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We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.

One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Baseball-wise, the Orioles specifically love that I haven't pitched as much as other guys coming into Major League Baseball.

It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.

I played baseball my entire life, up through college and everything, so working out and being physically active was always a huge part of my life. I'll spend at least a couple of hours in the gym a day.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I really started playing a lot after I turned pro and I had some time in the off-season.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.